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Beavers Proclamation.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, DESIGNATED AS AR
BoR DAY BY THE GOVERNOR.

Governor Beaver has issued the fol-
lowing proclamation regarding Arbor
Day.
In pursuance of goodly precedent
and in compliance with request of
the General Assembly of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania contained in a
concurrent resolution approved the
30th day Of March, A. ID. 1887, have
appointed and designated and do hereby
appoint and designate Friday, the 22d
day of April, A. ID. 1887, as Arbor
Day, and ! do earnestly recommend TO
the people of the Commonwealth that
they devote the whole, or at least a
portion of the said day, to the planting
of trees and shrubbery wherever il
may be proper and convenient SO TO
do. Let school directors, teachers and
scholars unite in making it day for
the adorning of The grounds surround
ing the school houses throughout the
Commonwealth. Let the people of our
towns and villages make it day for
planting of trees along their streets.
Let the people in our rural regions see
TO 1t that their highways are beauIified
by the planting OF trees and shrubbery
in the ground surrounding their homes.
Let the farmer see TO it that their
waste places on their farm are turned
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"NEARLY CRAzED

with pain" is the sad cry of many victim
Of rheumatism or neuralgia, and frequently
other diseases, such as kidney and liver
complaints, are directly traceable to iheu-
matism or neuralgia. These diseases for
some unexplainable reason, are rapidly in-
creasing, and in many instances are the
direct cause of much sickness which 80
hides its real origin as to lie mistaken for
other diseases In curing rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, sick headache, and in many cases of
kidney and liver troubles, Athlophoros has
wrought wonders. Those who have used
it are best qualified to speak of its merit,
Rouses Point, New York.
took Athlophoros and think it helped
me. had not walked for 8 weeks when
took the Athlophoros and have walked
since. / have taken nearly all medicines
recommended for rheumatism, and think
that Athlophoros helped me The most of
any. l am not entirely cured yet, but am
going to take Athlophoros If it comes on
bad again. MRs. THos. HAYES.
Boltenville, VT, August 18th, 1886.
can thankfully say believe | owe my
life to Athlophoros as an instrument in
the hand of God. / have had no return
of those awful spells of neuralgia of the
may induce others to try SO valuable medi-
cine, remain Very respectfully yours,
Mrs. c. n. PAIGE.
Pawling, N. Y, August 10, 1886.
The bottle of Athlophoros / procured
for Jacob Reinner's wife acted like charm.
She had been confined TO her bed for three
weeks or more. Could hardly help herself
any. In one week she was on her feet. She
hadn long before given birth to child and
had inHammatory rheumatism.
A. A. ToFFY.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
not be bought of the druggist the Athlo-
phoros Co., liz Wall St., New York, will
send either Carriage paid) on receipt Of
regular price, which is $40 per bottle
for Athlophoros and 5Gc. for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, In
digestion, weakness, nervous debility, diseases
Of women. constipation. headache, impure
blood, &c, Athlophoros Pills are unequaled.
oct2e-s6-6ms.
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THE COLUMBIAN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA

to probable account by the planting of
timber, nut and fruit trees thereon.
Let all the people understand that upon
the general observance of this day, and
the practical results which arise there
from, In large measure depend the con-
tiuuauce Of regular seasons of rainfall,
the tempering of our climate, the beauty
of our homes and highways, the timber
supply of the future, aud remunerat-
i've return for labor bestowed upon
lands not otherw Sc productive.
The observance of Arbor Day is be-
coming general in many of our States.
It's necessity is recognized by those
who have given the greatest care and
study to the subject, aud its practical
usefulness is attested by all who have
engaged in it. In case the day hereto
designated should be unsuitable in any
portion of the Commonw ealth, let an
adjournment be made to some future
day which will SUIT the climate and
convenience of the locality.
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Pleasure seeker en- route to Mon
treal-"Look here, my friend, four dol
lars is little steep"
Coachman--"You amt payin' it out
of yer own money, are yaerf"
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After highly successful career, COW
ering a period of nearly two years, as
a clerk in Nevada, No., shoe store,
Frank James, the ex.bandit, has gone
t. Dennisop, Texas, to embark in bust
ness for himself. II is not true, how
ever, as has been insinuated, that Mr..
james has resumed the practice of the
bandit profession, for except in the
cases OF men possessing great natural
abilities In that line, the bandit busi-
ness has been overdone. The cheap.
ness of henp and and the profusion of
trees hav', in a great measure, crippled
its usefulness, and when these have
failed, the hip-pocket pistol and the
Deputy Marshal in monstrous boots
have intervened TO render it inoongep-
ial Mr.. James will consequently en-
gage in general merchandise trade
His capital consists of a pretty vide
knowledge of human nature, several
bairbreadlh escapes from death and
$4,000 in money, the price received for
the little cottage presented to him when
he went to Nevada to live. An i'm
proved rifle, with which TO persuade
cowboys that his prices are reasonable,
is also numbered among bis stock of
assets.
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FOOLISH FEARS.

EYES," said Mrs. De Hobson, "Clara
hau an excellent opportunity to visit
Europe last year in company with some
friends, but | couldn't bear the idea Of
having the ocean between us
1T seems pity, Mrs Hrbsor,' re
sponded the caller, "a European trip
does give such tone to a soci ty
young LADY,
81 know it does. To those moving
in the high circles that We do it ia al
most necessity. spose," concluded
Mrs De Hobson, half regretiully, shat
l should have let her went. .'-Puck.
They tell in Lewiston, Me, OF an
oysterman whose saloon used to be
on Maine street, and who was the slow
est man in the stable. One day he
died, and soon after a citizen said to
Erastus, tho oysterman's son: "Eras-
tus, your father died rather sudden,
didn't he?" "Well, yea,' said Erastus
Sudden Cor him.
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DEBORAH FRANKLIN.

Benjamin Franklin, after many years
spent abroad enlightening men, gain
ing fresh wisdom and laurels, came
home to live in quiet retirement with
his son-in-law, Col. Richard Bache, at
the old mansion, which stood in a
large park on Market street, near
Fourth, this city. Shortly after that
he wrote friend 81 am now in the
bosom of my family and find our four
little prattlers, who cling about the
knees of their granpapa, afford me
great pleasure. l am surrounded by
my friends and have good daughter
and son-in-law to take care of me. l
have got into my niche, very good
house, which l built twenty-four years
ago and out of which l have been kept
ever since by employments." Frank
lin had small printing press set up on
one of the upper floors of the house,
with which he amused himself many
an hour by his experiments. But so
busy lite was not destined to be pro-
longed in quietness. He had been
settled but short time when his life
light went out on Saturday, April
II, l79O, when he was nearly eighty
five. Three days later, now nearly a
hundred years ago, his remains were
conveyed to the old Friends Burying-
Ground and placed beside those of his
wife and the thin stone slab laid over
them.
There was mourning throughout
this and other lands. Twenty thou
sand people crowded the streets around
that old burying-ground on the day of
the funeral, and as the simple cortege
passed over the few squares between
the house and the grove bells through
out the city tolled aud minute gnns
doomed mournfully. Clergymen of
the city of all denominations, the Su
preme Executive Council of the State,
of which Franklin had BEEN President;
the State Assembly, Judges of the Sa-
pr me Court, members of the Bar, the
officials of the city, printers and their
workmen, the Philosophical Socet,,
the College of Physicians, the students
ouu oouieN vi thC Hlldutlpnld SOl-
lcge and many civic organizations al
tended the funeral. The pall-bearers
we're Gov. Thos. Mifflip, Chief Justice
McKean, Thos Willing, PrrsidaaL of
The Bank of North America Mayor
Samuel Powell, VIM. Bingham and
David Rittenhouse. Following the
death and burial of Franklin came hon
ors and eulogiums from everywhere.
In Congress, Madison offered reso-
luton which said: Benjamin Frank
lin was citizen whose native genius
was not more an ornament to human
nature than his various exertions of it
nave been precious TO science"
"Friends Of Liberty" in France
erected mansolcum, but Fra, kiln s
unhonored grave rests among the tur-
moil and confusion of great, busy
city.-N y World
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Working Glasses Attention.

by Josiah Aliens Wife Miss HOLLY spent all last
season amid the whirl OF fashion at Saratoga, and
takes of its foes firtations, low neck dressing.
pug dogs, &C, In her inlmitable mirth provoking
style. he book is profusely illustrated by OPPKR
the renowned artist OF "Puck." BRIGHT AGENTS
WANTED. Address, HUBBARD BROS, Pubs,
Philadelphia, Pa. l5tapri.
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W. F. HALsTEAD, supt.
once Scranton, Feb 1st, 1872
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Franklin's Unhonored Grave.
UNNoTICED AND NEGLECTED, 1T LIES IN
THE BUSIEST SECTION OF PHILA-
DELpIIIA,

The bare, blank walls of very old
burying ground are frowned down up
on by the towering structur Is OF manu-
facture and business that surround and
hem them in in one of the busiest parts
of Philadelphia. Inside the burying-
ground walls are trees planted by men
who died from old age years age. Birds
come and rear their wide-mouthed fam.
lilies in this cool oasis in the great
desert of throbbing city streets. One
old man, bent and wrinkled, takes an
occasional walk over the scarcely dis
cernible, grass grown paths, and his
are the only feet that tread this silent
city of the dead.
In the Arch street wall very near the
corner an opening has been made.
The bricks have been taken away for
space of perhaps dozen feet. Through
an iron fence which covers this open
ing one can get glimpse of the peace
full grounds within. That graveyard
was made long years ago aud the noisy
city has grown all about it, crowding
it and jostlipg it, but never encroach-
ing beyond its walls. From sun up to
midnight there is a constant hurrying
of wagons and cars and human beings
by this metropolis. Yet that grated
opening has seldom visitor, though
there lies within few feet of it the
dust of man whose profound wisdom
and humanity moved the whole civil
ized world.
Not three blocks away stands great
institution bearing his name--an insti-
| tuition fostering all that is scientific
and that lives to learn the hidden
things of natures laws that fosters
and encourages the genius of men and
teaches industry and the value OF solid
learning. Less distant in the opposite
direction lies great public square, one
of those beneficial breatning-spaces of
the city's pent-up masses, bearing his
name. By its side there runs long,
wide street bearing his name. And all
over the city there are mills and print
ing shops and factories and founderies
bearing his name, while all over the
State and the country there are towns
and townships aud counties also bear
ing his name. Yet there lie his bones
down in the heart of this big city, with
arteries throbbing with the work and
pleasures of men, beneath thin stone
slab, which grows greener and thinner
year by year, obscured by the lightest
SHOWS of winter, the earliest grasses of
summer and the first fall Of autumn
leaves. A singular end of marvel
Gus man!
l looked through the bars. With
much craning of my neck and much
pressing of my face against the bars l
made out this simple, fast-fading in
scription in the thin marble slab:
BENJAMIN
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HUMOROUS.
MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR.

Omaha Dame (reading) - james
Rake, Of Frankfort, fred four rounds
of shot into his stomach, a teaspoon
ful at time, as remedy for asthma.
Omaha Daugh,er-Mercy mel 1t
didi't do any good, did itY
"The account says he is suffering
fearfully from lead poisoning"
"Shouldn't wonder I'm glad we're
homeopathists "-Omdhd World
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WHY THEY SMILED.

"Yes, my hands are soft said a
dudish and conceited young fellow the
other night in small company, as he
admiringly looked at those u.s. less ap-
pendages that had never done days
work. "Do you know how do ii 2"
he exclaimed, proudly; 81 wear gloves
on my hands every night to sleep in"
"Do you sleep with .our hat on
also 7" asked pert young woman.
And the young man replied in the
negative, and looked wonderinglv be.
cause the company smiled. Boston
Beacon.
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HAD CAUSE TO GRUMBLE

Old Bob Brayson, just after putting
on pair of new brogan shoes, went
out to chop wool. While standing on
a log, chopping, bis ak glanced aud cut
his left foot nearly off. His son came
up and asked:
pap, what's the ma'ter?'
M've dun ruint my new SHOE" the
old fellow replied. at beats anything
! ever seed. Ben chopin wood for
month in my old shoes an never
tecthed 'em, but now tina. I've lammed
down two dollars fur a new par have
10 cut an slash 'em all to pieces. y
Arkdnsdao Traveller.
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NAN can live at home, and make more money at
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tDe WORK, Large earnings sure from first start.
Costly outnt and terms free. Better not delay.
Costs you nothing TO send us your address and
md out; II you aie wise you will do 50 at once H.
HALLBTT Co., Portland, Maine. de 24-s6-iy
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sayrx. Concno may hc; tn,
drunk or anlx'r ic never turned his hack on
his f~ricnd-or-ttlie words grated a little
herc)-his enemy"
Miguel would have replied. hut Vic:
tor vas really. "Tool," he said, rinrh.
ing his arm. "tis an oil friend.
A~nl-nnd-the application is still to liz filled
up. Arc you crazya"
But on this point Miguel was not, and with
the revenge Of a rival aided ID his other in.
stincts, to permitted Victor to lc,l him away.
On their return to tho fonla, they found
Master Manuel too Ear c:onc witt, nguarlicnte
and o general animnsity tn the average
Americana to he Of any service. III they
worked alone, with pen, ink and paper, III tile
st,liIy, cicar1ito-clonlctl hack room of the
fonda. 1t was midnight, two hours nftar Con
cho had started, that E1i:::ucl rlarrxsl spurs tn
his horse for tho v~illn:cof Trcs iincs, with nm
application I" Governor Mirhrltmrnn for a
grant to tho "Eancloof tho Rel Istx:ks~ com.
fortably bestowed in his lxx.kct
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cussing their late discovery. Eut they
were in no better mnMl than their lptp
it appeared from, their con
vensation that in nn evil ,nmne,,t they had
sold o,t their interest in the alleged silver
mino IN Wiles aud lt<lro for q few hundred
dollam-Mnccrmhin. to what thcy vera az,
n,rt<i wouli le an a.tive opposition on the
part Of the A,nericanos. The astuta reader
will oasily understand that tho accomplished
Mr.. Wiles did not inform them Of it's value
A. quicksilver mine. although hc was oh.
li:ci tn impart his secret tn Pedro - a
necessary accomplish and reckless coadjutor.
Tint Pedro felt no qualms Of s,nmscience in
Thus hetraying Ills two comrades mny le in.
fcrred from his recent direct and sincere
treatment Of Concbo. and that he would, Il
occasion offered or policy made, it ~cxpedIent.
a calmly ollitArate Mr.. Wilcs-that gentle
maj himself never for n moment doubted.
1T we bal waited mt q little le would
hive given more-this cock.sye!n regretted
Manuel querulously.
met a peso" said Miguel. firmly.
"And why. my Aigusli Thou kaewsss M
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' C'N
Victor's role was more serious. He affectei
to be deeply touched, took the paper, folded
it and placed it in his breast. II shall make
agool fOol Of Don Jose Castro" hc said; "bc
will DECLARE It. is the governors own sigma
tnle, for Ito was his friend: hut have a care,
Garment that, you spoil it not by the orcnin:
of your rctl lips. When no is fooled l will
toll him Of this marvcl-this niece of mine.
and ho shall buy llcr pictures. Eth. little
ono" md lie gnvo her the avnncular caress,
I. C.. u pat Of tho hand on either cheek and q
kiss. Miguel cnvial him, hut cupidity ont.
generated Cupid. and presently the convcrsa-
tinn Tagged, until q convenient recollection
Of Victor's-that himself and comrade vert
duo Mt tho Posada .lcl Toros at 10 o'clo.k-
gavc t,,cm tho opportunity to retire.
But not without n chanco shot from Cnr-
mc,. "Tcll 10 mo" size said, half to Victor
and halt 10 Miguel, "wl,at las chnncrxl will,
Conrhof lilo was ever ready tn bring to m,
flowers from tho mountain aud insects and
birds. ThM knowcSt how hn would sit, oh,
my unrlc, and talk tn mo Of the rare rocks he
had secn, anil tho tesllS md tho evil spirits,
and nov lc comes no longer, my (:Onrho!
How is tl,iss N":hin. evil las ~lx,falIcm him.
a,relys" nnl her .irrxling lids ciosel half pm.
thctirally.
Stigr,cl's jealousy took IRE. lille il drink,
senorita. doubtless, and has forso:t.m moi
only tl,cc hut. ,nayl,an, his mulo ahl pack! 4,
b his custom. hal hal"
Tue tul diel out Of Garments ripe Tins. and
she shut them together with a snap like a
strel purse. Tho .lovn hal suddenly .'hansel
to n hawk: tho chil!.Girl into an antique
viraso: tho spirit hitherto din,ly o%utlim4l in
her face, Of somc shrewish Garria ~ancrxtrrw,
came to the fore. She darted q quick link al
her uncle, anil thcn, with her littlo h,nls on
her rigid lips, strobe with two steps up "
Miguel.
"Possibly, o Senior. Miguel Dominsues
PsSs y profound courtesy hsss9 Il Is ~ thes
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"zHen zoe don tnunt no did ,currant."
Tho grocery business Of Mr.. Ehxcommon,
although adequate anil sufficient for the vii.
Iage, was not cxhaustiny or nvertaxing To the
proprietor. The refulins OF the pork and Gour
barrel Of the average miner WINS the work OF
brief hour on Saturdaynights, hut the daily
Eeplenishincnto Of tho average miner with wills.
Ky WAS arduous aid inccssant Roscommon
spent more tine bohinl his lar tha,. Lis FRO.
GERS counter. Add to this tho fact that q long
shedlike cxtousion or wing boro tho legend,
Cosmopolitan Hotel. Doard OF Lodging by
the Day or Week. NJ. Rnscom,non," aud YOU
got an idea Of the variety Of the proprictor's
functions. Tho ahotel," h,wevor, was moro
directly under the charge Of Mira Roxom.
mon, q lady Of thirty years, strong, truculeat
and good-hearted
NJ. Rossomrnon had early adoptal the
theosy that most Of his r~alstnrnasa wara In.
saae, and wcre to he alternately tillied Of
paacated, ~ the csas might ba. Nothing that
sesnsyed, ~ suksyagas0 6 0ssss uus "a
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He time was noon
ct Tres Pinos. Tue
three pines from
which it gaiacd its
name, in the dusty
road and hot dir,
seemed to smoke
from their balsarnic
spires. There was a
glare from the road,
. glare from tho
sly, a glare from
tho rocks. q claro